Re: Developer coordinates

[Simon Kagstrom <simon@k9m134-1.kam.afb.lu.se>]

Thanks for your answer!


On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously simon.kagstrom.864@student.lu.se wrote:
> > First, how many developers are there in the Debian project?
> 
> About 600 now I think; I'm not online at the moment but the following
> command should produce a number:
> 
> ldapsearch -x -P 2 -b "ou=users,dc=debian,dc=org" -h db.debian.org "objectClass=debianDeveloper" dn
> 
> (Drop -x -P2 if you are using the potato version of openldap).

It then seems to be 737, with a grep for "gecos=" and a wc -l. Great!

> > I'm also wondering how "up to date" the coordinates are, I've noticed
> > that the list has grown since I first had a look at it.
> 
> It's never been complete, registering coordinates is a voluntary action
> which not all developers do.

Yes, I suspected it to be that way. Well, 336 / 737 is a pretty good number of
coordinates. :-)

Thanks, 

// Simon Kågström